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Saturday, 18 August 2007 |
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Is this the world's biggest dog? This photo has been making its rounds across the Internet. So what do you think? Is it photoshopped, or is it real? Originally posted: www.doggienews.com  Be first to comment this article | Views: 11689 | Read more...
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Friday, 17 August 2007 |
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 Dr. Marty Becker, DVM, author of “Chicken Soup for the Pet Lovers Soul” and co-author of “Why Do Dogs Drink out of the Toilet?”, has teamed up with the Companion Animal Parasite Council to spread the word that parasite protection is needed by your dog year round.
Many believe that parasite protection is not necessary year round in certain regions of the country because during the winter months the temperature drop below freezing and the parasites can no longer survive the winter. Its true that fleas, ticks and other parasites can’t survive the winter outdoors, but they certainly can survive the winter in your warm and cozy house. Because of this, it is important to protect your pet year round.
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Friday, 10 August 2007 |
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If you adore dogs and puppies this is the site for you! Upload photos of your dogs, find friends, create and join groups, post in the forum, write in your blog, submit news, articles and links.Be first to comment this article | Views: 119 | Read more... |
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Monday, 12 April 2004 |
 With the recent Menu Foods pet food recall, many pet owners have become very cautious in what they will feed to their pet and some have even turned to feeding their pet home-prepared meals. Futhermore, with so many brands being affected by the Menu Food recall, many owners don’t know which brands they can trust to be safe for their dog or cat. The bottom line is that the Menu Foods recall has put a lot of pet food manufacturers reputations on the line.
To help reassure pet owners, Iam and Eukanuba employees have published an open letter to pet owners. The full-page ad will appear in 59 newspapers in North America this week. In the letter, Iams and Eukanuba address how they are handling the Menu Foods recall and assure consumers their dry food products are safe and do not contain wheat gluten. Be first to comment this article | Views: 398 | Read more... |
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Wednesday, 07 July 2004 |
 Hill’s Pet Nutrition has voluntarily recalled its Prescription Diet m/d Feline Dog Food because the food included wheat gluten purchased from the same supplier as Menu Foods. Yesterday, the FDA announced that scientists had found melamine in samples of Menu Foods recalled pet food as well as the wheat gluten used in as ingredients in the recalled food.Be first to comment this article | Views: 173 | Read more... |
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Wednesday, 07 July 2004 |
Have you ever wondered what makes small dogs small and what makes big dogs big? Well a group of scientists wondered how dogs could have the biggest range of size of any mammal in existence today and their findings are published in this month’s issue of Science.
To find the answer, the scientists ran DNA profiles and took measurements of a group of Portuguese Water Dogs. Why Portuguese Water Dogs? Because the breed has a distinct size range and there are small, medium and large sized Portuguese Water Dogs.
The researchers found a regulatory sequence that appears next to a gene that regulates growth in dogs. In small dogs, mutations in the regulatory sequence suppress the growth gene which causes small dogs to remain small. In large dogs, the mutations are not present and the growth gene is not restricted.
To prove their findings, the scientists expanded their subjects to other breeds of dogs and they found the same mutations of the regulatory sequence in other small breeds.
The mutation in the regulatory gene is what ensures that Chihuahuas don’t grow up to be the size of a Mastiff. Considering that all dogs descended from wolves and wolves do not have the same genetic mutation of the regulatory sequence that small dogs posses, it is very interesting to note the differences between dog breeds. At some point, after dogs became domesticated, the genetic instruction that gives small dogs their size must have been introduced. At this point, there is no concrete research that tells us when this genetic instruction was introduced. If the gene was not introduced to small dogs, the only other possibility is that small dogs are descendants of a smaller wolf.Be first to comment this article | Views: 119 | Read more... |
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Wednesday, 07 July 2004 |
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Can your child’s exposure to dogs from birth to age 3 affect your child’s health later in life? Some researchers think so. During a presentation at an American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology conference, researchers shared the results of an interesting study. The study tracked children who had exposure to dogs in the following scenarios:
birth to age 3
no routine exposure to dogs from birth to age 3
exposure at birth but not at age 3
exposure at age 3 but not at birth
Here is what the researchers found:
birth to age 3 - 18% of the children showed signs of asthma by age 6
no routine exposure to dogs from birth to age 3 - 34% of the children showed signs of asthma by age 6
exposure at birth but not at age 3 - 25% of the children showed signs of asthma by age 6
exposure at age 3 but not at birth - 31% of the children showed signs of asthma by age 6 Be first to comment this article | Views: 317 | Read more... |
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